Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1887-04-22
General News.


statue at Charlestown, 5. c., April 90.
Jshn l.. Goeckel, in charge Of the B. & o.
ticket office ut Washington, has been ar
rested for $1,000 shortage in his account.
After an exchange Of angry words re-
Gently between two negro girls of Frederick
city, enc stabbed the ether and death fol-
lowed.
All California pioneers now residents Of
washington are TO have a reunion in the
nonth Of May and a shad baking on the
Potomac. There are about fifty Of them.
The national drill committee have made
public the list of military organizations
which have been entered for the drill in
Washington in May. The entries represent
all parts of the country and number 70 for
individual drill and 90 for rife practice.
All the business places were closed In
Washington City on Sunday last, under the
puritanical law lately discovered by the
present Commissioners and put In force
The act caused good deal Of Inconvenience
aad drove large number Of persons into
Virginia 10 indulge their Sunday pleasure
The municipal elections In Kansas last
week were made exceptionally interesting
by the fact that women for the first time
toek part In them. About 1880 registere d
In 20 towns, and fair proportion joined In
canvassing for votes, voting and whooping
up enthusiasm for favoritc candidates.
There Is considerable excitement in Ten.
nessse ever the published charge that Gov.
Taylor, Of that State, in appointing coal-oil.
inspectors at Nashville and Knoxville, re.
ceived . Money consideration. The charge
seems TO emanate from disappointed sppli-
cants, and the friends Of Gsv. Taylor char
acterize 1t as base falsehoed.
Harry Clay, the great sire Of speed pro.
ducers, died on Wednesday last week at the
Middetown, IN. W stock farm of J. d.
Willis, aged "a years. Eight Of his daugh-
tiers produced fourteen performers, among
them ST. Julien, with record of 2:11t. As
Q breeding horse ne ranked next 70 old
Hambletonian. An appropriate monument
will be erected ever his grave.
Chief Justice David X. Cartier, who has
presided over the Supreme Court of the
District since its organization, died about 10
O'Clock Saturday night at his home, on Thir-
teenth and l. streets northwest He was
born June %, 1909, and had long passed
the period at which he could have retired
TO discharge the duties of his Office until a
few months ago.
The ass-meeting under the auspices OF
the Municipal Council of the Irish National
League Of Baltimore, at Oraterio Hall, on
Thursday OF last week, was an impressive
demonstration against the passage Of the
coercion measures now pending in the Par
lament of the United Kingdom. The meet
ing was large, and responded with enthu-
siasm TO every sentiment assertive Of Ire.
lands right TO govern itself, and to be rid
Of the domination Of government that
knows no remedy for grievances but re.
pressive laws.
John Wanamaker ON Monday notified
his employees of his intention to introduce
forth with system Of profit sharing. All the
sales persons throughout the house will
have added to their present salaries on and
after Monday next . sum each week graded
by their sales. In their clerical, packing,
invoice and various offices civil-service
system will be strictly followed in promo.
items and adyancements A special honor
list" will be kept for the mere rapid prefer.
ment OF those showing marked business
ability. The extra payments apply only TO
the retail departments and w such as have
been in the service six months and over.
Mr.. Wsnamaker said that no less than $780,
900 would be distributed TO the employees
through the new system this year In adj.
ten 10 their salaries.-Phita Ledger.
The Hon. Jefferson Davis, In his speech
at the unwilling Of the Albert Sidney John.
ston statue in New Orleans, said: "The
Southern Confederacy, rich in material but
peor In everything else, produced three
generals" and he named Albert Sidney
Jshnston, Robt T. Lee and Stonewall Jack.
son. or Gen. Lee he said: "He was man
Of stainless character, devoted to duty
whose asnsgatien was exhibited in the last
years Of his life, when, with all the glory
Of the war around him and worshiped as q
hero, he retired TO the quiet Of college to
teach school, and there he labered with the
sense Of duty and with the high conviction
that he could do most good Tor his country.
He died In time Of peace. How far his
heart was broken by the loss of cause he
loved was known alene 10 Him who knows
the hearts VI men,"
Erastus Winan, Of New York, has con.
cludej the purchase from R,ymSnd Broth
ers, the inventors of all the improvements
upon the pulverizer, which sometime ago he
Investigated ut Montreal, and which, 1t Is
claimed, illustrates an entirely new princi.
pie ia mechanics, growing out Of the up. iii.
cation Of the natural principles developed
In cyclsne. The results show that iron
Stag can be reduced TO powder, and that
other refractory substances can b. treated
with equal facility. Tests are ut once To be
made with machines ready for the purpose
il various parts vi the country on ores, fer
tiliz RS aud various other ARTICLES OF Gem
merve, which, II successful, II Is claimed
will revslutionize the present mode vi grind
ing and pulvering. A test made with hall
barrel of nails showed the iron ground into
the inest powder without the aid OF tuath,
stamp OF roller, and with nothing but air.
An epidemic OF mild epizootic or catarrl
aM"ng hsrses has broken out all over the
city, says the Baltimore Sun, and hardly a
stable Is without case or two. During the
past winter pneumonia has prevailed " a
considerable extent, and for the last three
weeks the lighter form OF catarrh has bsen
spreading with rapidity. The horses, when
first attacked, lose their appetites and 10
come droopy. Some OF them refuse To cal
for Two or three days. They are afterwsrd.
attacked with coughing, sneezing and gen.
eral bronchial Inflammation. followed in q
later stage by discharges frsm the nostris
During the sickness their nostrils are very
pale and the eyes dull, aud nearly all the
organs are affected. A popularity with
many Of the cases is stiffness aud lameness
in the headquarters, due 10 Inflammation OF
the kidneys. So marked Is this that some
OF the horsemen have believed that specific
lameAess existed Ia the hind legs, especially
~ some Of the horses would appear more
lame on one side than the other. Horses
thus affected have had less ot the cous Ia
than the others. A number OF animals NJ
pasture adjacent to the city are SICK with
the disease, but no deaths Ia town or county
have been known TO result where pnsumo
mia did not set In. The treatment by the
veterinary physicians has been gentle laxa
tives and avoidance Of drafts oil Geld air
Where coughs were troublesome oil Of tar
and similar cough reliefs are used, and
counter irritants are applied on the throat.
Where the lamsness occurs the hindquar
tiers are covered and the action of the kid.
neys Kept up. Sometimes, also, y counter
irritant Is used over the back at the kidneys
In the csnvalescsnt stage, which sets in two
or three weeks after the attack, moderate
work and little read Sweating Is recon-
mended, IL followed by rubbing down until
the horse Is perfectly dry. When the horse
will eat warm mashes are given.